Stephie D.

How can I describe myself when I'm still figuring it out?

[Kwabena Boat 🇬🇭 @kwabenaboatman]

Like you I have first hand experience with this from teaching during my national service, and it forced me to think about the deeper problem.

I was about 22 at the time, and some of the JHS students would make comments like, “Sir, this weekend I want to come to your house oo,” and I’d shut it down immediately. One time, I overheard a student make a comment in twi that essentially translated to, “This teacher he’s even a small boy and sees himself like that,” and that really put things into perspective for me.

It made me realize that a lot of these kids have been groomed by older people in their communities for so long that it feels normal to them. The issue isn’t about how children dress or present themselves. That doesn’t solve this. The problem runs deeper and it always circles back to the adults in their communities.

A child having a crush on an adult isn’t strange. That’s part of adolescence. But the responsibility is always on the adult. The moment you indulge it, you’ve failed that child. And beyond that, your actions don’t just affect that one moment, you condition them to see that behavior as acceptable, which only makes them more vulnerable to other predators.

That’s why this isn’t something you fix by telling kids to behave differently. It’s something adults have to take responsibility for, by setting and maintaining clear boundaries every single time.

[I_Am_Eva @Particular_Eva]

We don’t need anymore Apartments in this city !! Do the investors not like parks?? Trees ?? Aquariums?
Apartments that the average Ghanaian can’t afford ??

[Nana B. @koboateng]

A politician can tell you how many votes he got in a village in 2016, 2020 and 2024. Ask him how many classrooms, hospital beds or jobs that same village needs and suddenly the network is bad. smh

[Naa Ayeley @NaaBabyAyeley]

Their generation failed us. They were given so so much and they couldn't even pretend to preserve it. They didnt just close the door behind them, they burned down the room and had the nerve to berate us for not thriving.

[FAYALORRRD @faya_lorrrd]

Ghana tells its children to pick science. Then it builds no labs, funds no research, creates no jobs, and watches biology graduates beg for relevance in a market never built to need them. The course was never useless. The system made it look that way.

[King Dom @enyonvm]

It is getting harder to find literature in Ghanaian languages, and that's scary

Apart from the Bible, most people can't name one book written in their language

Our local languages have evolved, and we don't have books recording modern usage

We need to remedy this urgently

[Etornam @EfoEtornam]

If Nkrumah hadn't built all these facilities, we wouldn't have them today. We haven't been able to maintain most of the factories he established. We really don't celebrate him enough.😂😂😂

[Nana Kwame Asimeni @nka_gha]

Until Ghana happens to you, you’ll think people just wake up to complain

[Seyram🧚🏾‍♀️ @seyramiseyram]

My list of the people I blame for this heat.
1. Politicians
2. Galamsey
3. The people who build houses without trees

I will add to the list when I think of mor e

[Brandon Zicha @ProfBZZZ]

A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's.

This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates.

This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages.

What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime.

This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12.

Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

Between Iraq changing the age of consent from 18 to 9, conservatives in the US tweeting "YOUR BODY, MY CHOICE", one of Gisele Pelicot's abusers justifying his behaviour by saying "I thought she was dead" and women in Sudan taking their own lives to avoid being r@ped by paramilitary fighters... If you still can't grasp just how many men hate women, you're not listening.

[Lexis @niilexis]

This country will delay your life, underpay your effort, tax your struggle, then shame you for not moving fast enough.

[Afua💕 @Afua_priscy]

You blur the face of a predator but boldly publish the full name and location of a 7-year-old victim. How did we lose our sense of right and wrong? Hide the predator. Expose the child.
This is how our media fails victims. Protect minors. Don’t re-traumatize them for clicks.

[Pazienza✨#StopGalamseyNow @Bobthebuil19383]

This is still our reality. Our waterbodies continue to be polluted and these environmental terrorists are so brazen that they openly declare on live television that they will not stop. Our lives are literally at stake. #StopGalamseyNow

[Bossy, PD 💨 @Bossy___]

You see how fast they jail the woman ? Adu boahen, wontumi, and that no neck woman with all the evidence are still walking free in the name of democracy . The system is against the ordinary Ghanaian

[Sam Beynon #BLM #FreePalestine 🇵🇸 🇿🇦 @BeynonSammy]

💔🕊️

[Kiraaa @dumbtwt7]

-Salaries don’t match cost of living
-Education doesn’t guarantee you a job
-EVERYTHING is so damn expensive

[𝓐𝓰𝔂𝓮𝓲𝔀𝓪𝓪💗 @oluchiszn_]

moahyehy3 white white f3f33f3 nanso moakoma mo tantantan.

[𝕯𝖆𝛎𝖎𝐝🧘🏾‍♂️ @DavidPattt]

Your successful friends will leave you behind if you don't level up too.